Sworn translations from English into Italian in Pordenone

Sworn translations of English documents in Pordenone

West of the Tagliamento lies industrial Friuli: household appliances, the furniture district along the Livenza, mechanics and components. Around the provincial capital the plain runs south towards the Veneto, while to the north the foothills rise to the Carnic Prealps and the valleys behind Maniago and Spilimbergo.

This office produces sworn translations from English into Italian in Pordenone, certified before the competent officer and delivered ready to be filed. Anyone holding documents issued in an English-speaking country finds a service that covers the whole procedure, from the quotation to the delivery of the sworn file.

The service is meant for English-speaking residents of the province and for everyone arriving with papers drawn up in English: for those coming from the United Kingdom and Ireland, from India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, from the Philippines and Nigeria, from the United States and Canada, from Australia, Malta and South Africa.

One question comes back in almost every request and concerns what has to be handed over to the translator. An original, a certified copy and a plain photocopy do not carry the same weight before the receiving office, and the third section explains where the difference lies.

The certified translations in Italy that leave this office are accepted in Sacile, Azzano Decimo, Cordenons, Spilimbergo, San Vito al Tagliamento and Maniago, and in the other municipalities of the province of Pordenone.

The Italian offices that receive these files

A translation sworn by an official translator holds full legal validity before every Italian administration. In the city and across the province the files prepared here are habitually filed with:

• the Prefecture of Pordenone, for Italian citizenship applications and for the procedures of the territorial government office;
• the Police Headquarters of Pordenone and the stations of Sacile, Spilimbergo and San Vito al Tagliamento, for residence permits, renewals and family reunification;
• the Municipality of Pordenone, with its registry office and civil status office, and the corresponding offices of the plain and of the foothills;
• the competent Civil Motor Vehicle Office, for the conversion of driving licences issued abroad;
• the Court of Pordenone and the Office of the Public Prosecutor, for civil proceedings, for legalisations and for family cases;
• the Friulian universities, the schools and the vocational training bodies, for enrolment and for the recognition of qualifications;
• the Friulian health authorities, for registration with the national health service and for welfare procedures.

Between the appliance factories of the plain and the furniture workshops of the Livenza the province has drawn workers from a long list of countries for decades, and the offices of Pordenone are used to files opened with foreign acts. What they ask for is that those acts arrive translated by a translator who answers for the text before the court.

The area west of the Tagliamento leans in part towards Treviso and Venice for work and services, and many residents have files open in both regions at once. The sworn file keeps the same value before any Italian administration, whichever region it is filed in.

The service also takes in consular acts, that is, the documents issued in Italy by foreign representations. Certificates and declarations drawn up in English by the consular offices of English-speaking countries require the same sworn certification as acts arriving from abroad.

The same translations keep their validity outside Italy as well, before the Italian Embassies and the Italian Consulates in the European countries gathered in the menu: Germany, France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Czechia, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom and Ireland.

Originals, certified copies and plain photocopies

The oath concerns the relationship between two texts, so the document to which the translation is attached decides the standing of the file as a whole. This is why the question is worth settling before the work begins rather than at the counter.

When the translation is joined to the original or to a certified copy released by the authority that issued the act, the file is complete and no office has grounds to object. This is the solution to prefer whenever the act can be requested again or more than one specimen is held.

When it is joined to a plain photocopy, the file remains valid as a translation, but some offices ask all the same for the original to be produced at the moment of filing. This is no shortcoming of the translation: it is a check on authenticity that concerns the source document and that the administration carries out on its own account.

At the quotation stage the office indicates which of the two solutions suits the destination, so that the file is prepared once only. Scans should include every page of the act, back sides included, since stamps, apostilles and marginal notes are often printed there.

Acts issued by English-speaking administrations reach Italy in a great many shapes: extracts printed on security paper, computer print-outs signed by a registrar, certified copies bearing a raised seal. Whichever the shape, the Italian office looks for the same three elements, namely the issuing authority, the date and the signature that authenticates the entry, and the sworn translation reproduces each of them in the position it occupies on the source act.

The English documents translated into Italian

Below are the acts for which requests arrive most often from the province. The list opens with birth certificates, the act that starts almost every civil status procedure.

• Birth certificate: birth certificates serve for transcription in the registry office, for residence registration, for marriage and for Italian citizenship applications.
• Criminal record certificate and pending charges: criminal records and certificates of pending charges recur in citizenship applications and in the recruitment procedures of the manufacturing companies of the district. Their validity is limited in time.
• Marriage certificate: marriage certificates allow transcription in the Italian civil status registers, reunification with a spouse and the reconstruction of family records.
• Certificate of family status: certificates of family status are requested for family reunification, for residence procedures and in citizenship files.
• Passport and identity card: passports and national identity cards accompany almost every file and are attached in sworn translation in order to identify the holder of the other acts.
• Driving licence and vehicle registration document: licences issued outside the European Union and vehicle registration certificates are translated and sworn in order to drive during the period allowed and for the conversion procedure.
• Diploma and educational certificate: diplomas, professional attestations, university degrees and transcripts listing subjects and marks are required by the Friulian universities and by the schools of the province.
• Tax code and equivalent fiscal attestations issued abroad, needed in order to open a position with the Italian offices or to sign an employment contract.
• Divorce certificate and divorce decree: divorce decrees make it possible to update marital status, to remarry, and are produced in proceedings on custody and maintenance.
• Certificate of no impediment to marriage: it is required of anyone intending to marry in a municipality of the province of Pordenone and having to prove that there is no impediment.
• Other identity documents and administrative acts: residence certificates, death certificates, powers of attorney and declarations issued by English-speaking authorities accompany residence permits, civil status files and inheritance procedures.

Sworn translations in Friuli and in the Veneto

The office covers every Friulian province and the neighbouring Venetian and Lombard ones. Those living in the province of Pordenone need not reach any counter: the papers travel electronically and the sworn file arrives at the address indicated.

Within the region we follow sworn translations in Trieste, the regional capital, official translations in Udine, on the far bank of the Tagliamento, and certified translations in Gorizia.

Towards the Veneto, which begins beyond the Livenza, we work on sworn translations in Treviso, on official translations in Venice, on certified translations in Belluno, on sworn translations in Vicenza, on official translations in Padua and on sworn translations in Verona.

Further south and west the office also handles certified translations in Rovigo, sworn translations in Brescia and official translations in Mantua.

Registers in the English-speaking world are kept sometimes by a central agency, sometimes by a county or a district office, so two certificates of the same kind may present themselves with different layouts, seals and wordings. These formal differences have to be recognised for the Italian text to pass at the counter, together with the marginal annotations that record later corrections, acknowledgements and divorces.

Quotation and delivery of sworn translations in Pordenone

Sworn translation and certified translation describe the same procedure; legalisation is a further step, provided for only in certain procedures, which takes place at the Office of the Public Prosecutor. The apostille, by contrast, concerns the document of origin and is affixed in the State that issued it.

The quotation is free of charge and is calculated on the actual text of the acts. It states a final figure, inclusive of duties and revenue stamps, of the sworn statement and of delivery, and it indicates the delivery date. It remains valid for seven days.

The companies of the district usually ask for documents at the moment of recruitment, because the social security position has to be opened together with the contract: having the file ready before the interview keeps the start date from slipping by weeks.

To obtain the quotation it is enough to send the scans by email or by messaging, indicating the office of destination. The paper original is not needed at this stage and no office has to be visited.

Every file is prepared by an official translator entered on the Register of Experts of the Chamber of Commerce. sworn translation services in Italy run exclusively towards Italian: the opposite path, from Italian into English, does not form part of the service. Italian-speaking readers will find the corresponding page at traduzioni giurate di inglese a Pordenone.